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Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Paperback, New edition)
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Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 8
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In both past and modern societies the concepts of memory and
identity have been inextricably intertwined. Memory, through its
power of recollection and reflection, is perceived as a central and
necessary pathway for self-discovery, self-expression, and
self-knowledge crucial to an understanding of the physical and
spiritual world. Memory, in this way, becomes fundamental to
identity itself, as it is through the complex process of both group
and individual recollection and commemoration that cultural,
political, national, religious, and gender identities are not only
imagined but constructed, reconstructed, and represented. Taking as
its focus this complex interplay of memory and identity in the
medieval and early modern European context, this volume of essays
presents its findings under five thematic headings: ""The Poetics
of Memory and Heroic Identity", "Cultural Memory and National
Identities", "Emotional Identities", "Nota Bene: The Craft of
Memory and Corrective Instruction" and "Memorialising Protestant
Identities in Early Modern England". Contributions examine
constructions of memory and identity in such key works as the Old
English Soliloquies; the Old Norse kings' sagas Morkinskinna and
Heimskringla; medieval Serbian hagiographies; Havelok the Dane; Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight; Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, Troilus
and Criseyde and Adam Scriveyn; Elizabethan translations of the
Psalms; John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft;
seventeenth-century portraiture. The research presented here offers
valuable insights into the centrality of memory to medieval and
early modern constructions of political, religious, and national
identities and points up future avenues for scholarly
investigation.
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